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70-TH ANNIVERSARY OF PARIS HERUNI MARKED
ARMENPRESS: The 70-th anniversary birthday of Paris Heruni, a world famous Armenian astrophysicist, a professor and doctor of engineering sciences, was
marked today at the National Academy of Sciences by awarding him the title of honored worker of science, as well as Academy's Science Medal.
He is famous for creating the best solar panels in the world, that have
the highest rate of converting sun-light into energy. After graduating the Moscow Energy Institute in 1960 he returned to Armenia, establishing and leading since then Armenian Radio-Physics and Electronics Research
Institute. He also was one of the founders of another research institute of radio -physics measurements and an affiliated center for antennae standards.
He is also known for his studies at Kar-Hunge, in south
Armenia, a location where pre-Christian Armenian priests are believed to have succeeded in calculating the number of days in a year. This enabled them to establish the solar calendar widely practiced in Armenia and
other ancient cultures of later periods. They also measured the approximate distance around the earth and came to the realization that the Earth was round.
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